Pa««2 



lUinou Agricaharal Association 



RECORD 



Puftliihca twice a month >>y 0)e 

 lUinJs ABHtulturai AsaoeiatiSn, 

 608 South' |)tai-l>orn Street. Chieato. 

 Illin<J 3. IfcUtta by News I'ublielty 

 Depa^tmeBt, ti J. Montross, Director. 



as iseciml class matter Olt. 



EntrV i 



10. i|j;i 



'■aeo.l 



Mar<' 



inp * .'•pecial 



vIcKilf for 



Oitnii 



ISL'l 



itt 

 mill' 



_ post office at Cfti 



nnrter the act of 

 Acceptance for ma^l- 

 ratcB of postage 

 Section nnj. Acr of 



ge ppo- 



_ .. . . Acr oi 



r 3. 19l|". authorlzeil Oct. ll. 



The thdi\-1Htial membership fee of 

 till- I linois .ipricultur.-tl ^asocin- 

 tion 'i^ tUe clotlars a year. THis' 

 fee tticlM<Ii-s (iayment of ten cents 

 for 3iil>scri!nian to tiie Illinois Ae- 

 rlcuUl ral .Association Itecoril. 



OFFICERS 



S. H. Tliompson 



Quinoy. 

 Kckert. Uelli- 



President. 



Vlcc-t "S'dent; A. O. 



v| le.. 



Secret ij-y. Oeo, A. Fox. Sycamore 

 Treaskirer. R. A. Cowies. Hlooming 



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The Illinois Agricultural Assoaiatioii Record 



June 15, 1923 ' J^J^^ 



I. A. A. Maintains Le^al Service 



To Protect Interests of Farmers 



EpIECt'TIVE «0»I.MITTEK ' 



Br- Congressional Districts . 



Utlj-^Henry McGoUKh. Maple Parlt- 

 12th-+:. F. iTulloclt. l:.jckfT>ril. 

 I3th-^''. E. Haml»orouph. I^olo. 

 14th-; V. H. Mbody. Port Byron. 1 

 isth— 4 I. K. Colembel. Iloopole. n 

 16th — f'5. E. Uenler, Mendota. 

 171 h — ,'^. P. Barton. Cortiell. 

 18tlt — ^'. -Tt. Finley. Hoope.ston. 

 Ijth^). j; Holterman. .Sjidarus. 

 ;nth-4 Carl J- fmitn, Detroit. 

 2lst — a:. L. Corbin. CarlinviUe. 

 2Jn.l-f Stanley :"astle. .\lton. 

 23rd— I "Jirlton Trimble. Trimble. 

 24th — furt Anf erson. X'-nia. 

 25lh — Vernon ]-essley. Sparta. 



ctors pt Depai-Inients, 

 I. Aj .\. Offlre 



Genertll OfBce in'' A.isistant to Seij- 

 retarjfl J. P. Hirpcr; Field OrKanijj- 

 atlon. J. C. Salldr; Organization Pub- 

 licity. I O. E. Mitzger; .\ev.a Publi.l- 

 ity. UjJ Monttosa;' TransiMirtatioii. 

 L..J. Quasey; Statistics. .1. <'. \\ at- 

 son; Plliance. R. A.. Cowl-s; FruU 

 and vWetablq Marketing 

 Dui^t Live Stick Mark.ti 

 Stewarjt: ■ Dair* MarketiM 

 Lyncbri^PhosphJite l.irn-- 

 Bent. rtLeiral. Newton J 



(.'. 



K. 

 . -„. C. A. 

 ii,ir. A. 1>. 

 Mone. J. K. 

 ■rkins. 



Alglonquin Milk 

 Shippers Saved 

 II $45 Every Day 



■In 4J recent letter' to ihe I. .\. -i 



art. 



: coui]- 



One 01 the most receat and, 

 one of tlik.inost eft'eojive tiepart 

 lUfnts of tjie I. A. A. workingi 

 tmlay forjtljie botiotit of tlio Illi- 

 nois fanuill|urfau member in the| 

 bu-sinoss 'm\ aKrienltiire is the- I.j 

 A. A. I>wjl Service, with New-; 

 ton Jenldnp as director. This 

 division (|f;the service of the I. 

 A. A. wisi established to give 

 onraiiiztvl' farmers of Illinois the 

 ad.vantajreii of lejral eouasel on 

 a par-, wiltili that employed by 

 the cr'reat' firms rep.resentiiip; 

 other indji^tries. 



The wotW of the Legal' Service 

 may be tlivlded Jnto the follow- 

 ing four t;il«ups: 



! — As.sl^l^nce to' the various 

 other j departments of the 

 .-^ssotl^tion. 

 2 — nusineiss of the Association 



'itsellj. 

 3 — Service to Count.v rami 



Bureaus. 

 4— Special matters. 

 : All Vse it 

 Kver>' (lebartnient of 

 spciatioui 1b! iff constant 

 the Legal! Department. 



Mr. Durst 



etable 



wishes 



the As- 



need of 



When 



of the Fruit and Ves- 



.Mhitketing Department, 



to hielp organize a local 

 fruit exch4h|ge in Union County, 

 for instancje. it becomes necessary 

 to incorpolrilte the organ izfttioi) 

 draw up appropriate by-laws for 

 the organifajtion, pass upon crop 

 be signed by the 

 This is the proper 

 the Legal Bepart- 



Ste\vart, ilgon^uin. .McHenry i 

 ty, md'le this ttatcment: 



t IS nloYiths ago I wrote 



out ourl milk rate to Chi- 



Our mil«age to Chicago was 



via Weit Chicago. 52 miles, 



we h^ve a line via Crys- 



', 47 milfes. There was tallt 



nr for ^he milk by zones 



were t^ be outside of the 



zone. You got us insid^ 



50-miI| 



this sliijtion. 



saving 



Another concrete e.^ample of I, 



A. A 

 well 



s^vicej! • Mr. 

 datlsfied kwith 



ne and We get eight cent* 

 er 100 pounds than it wj 

 otside. 

 : tounds 



Of about >45.' 



ortalion! nei)ari':i' 



contracts ;o 

 members, t t<t 

 function qf 

 i.icnt. 



What is 

 1 tables, is 

 -i^'dH^ts. 



We. are." shippin.g 

 it milk a day from 

 his makes a daily 



Stewart is 

 the saving 



broughl to Algonquin milk ship- 

 pers by the Trainspejtatiou Depart- 

 ipent. And* iU; his letter he was 

 'asking for.mor^ service — this time 

 in securing actjon % a railroad in 

 cleanii? out I Canadian thistles 

 from W^e rightjof-way. 



want service writ^ 

 Don't expect I. X 



—If yoiJ 

 I. A. .\, I 



Mora ■ 

 to the 



A. dtjiartments to know your 

 grievaces unless you "put tlient 

 wise" I o your [wants. 



Producers Will 

 Open Agency At 

 'Cincinnati, Ohio 



\ Repi esentatite live stock pro- 

 ducers -of Oh(o, Kentucky, and 

 Btdianji, in a jneeting in Cincin- 

 dati, ^aoI( preliminary steps to 

 eetablii h a producers live stocU 

 .ciinimi^sion agency at that maiv 

 ket. "liey will organize undeD 

 Ohifc's a^w coope.rative market- 

 ing la' I and be a member of the 

 family >[ co-operatives making up 

 the N4 lonal Ljive Stock Produce 

 er's -\9iiociatior. Operations willj 



not sta 



until July. 



tfue of fruit and veg- 

 also true of dairy 

 Jlr,. Ljncli is Cvi!,-;! 

 upon con.sta itly from tlie [dairy 

 districts of t lie state, to as.-iist,in^ 

 forming dajiry organizations, Nlr. 

 H. .\. DeWerff. I-'arni A^viner 



Franklin County, wants to 

 orianize i^he :milk producei-.s in j*- 

 iocalitv in , his county. Tlft» in- 

 corporatioji- paiiers are ohila-;m-i' 

 for the Denton .'.'ilk Vrotjucci." 

 .\ssociation aliui it is now a ^>oin^ 

 concern. Tlu work of incorporat- 

 ing and orda lizing creainei-io.-? and 

 milk niaricting conipanies is 

 done b.v the ^eiral Department. 

 Live .st'iick Work 

 WheiL J.iiil. fehinii. Adviser in 

 Fulton Cfcirity,'; calls upon Mr. 

 Stewart foif^ssiitance in the or- 

 ganization |ot a\ Shipping Asso- 

 ciation, he j takes' it up with the 

 Legal Dep|iittraeiit, which pre- 

 pares incorporation papers and 

 attends to j the legal aspects of 

 the matter and the Fulton Coun 

 ty Farm Bijrean Live Stock ship- 

 ping Association is the result. 

 These shipiiiiig associations have 

 been organized 4 all over Illinois 

 during the jpast year. They are 

 uniform inj character and have 

 all, been sjet up in accordance 

 with, and h^ve become affiliated 

 in the marketing plan of the 

 National Live Stock Producers 

 Associationj 



Before Mr, Bent of the Lime 

 stone-Phosplhate Department, en 

 ters into contractual relations 

 with the Kuhm Phosphate & 

 Chemical dot. in Tennessee, lie 

 goes over wiith great detail, the 

 subject majtter involved in the 

 contract, wlt^i the Legal Depart- 

 ment of th4 Association. In this 

 way he safeguards the Associa- 

 tion and rib'lits of the members 



llinois. I who buy phosphate 



through th^ Association. 



Legislative Aid 



The Legii; Department works 



in close cDiijunction w*ith the 



legislative iofcamlltee. It some- 



(o^n 



times prepares a bill for the 

 committee. It analyzes bills 

 troduced by interests other than 

 agriculture to determine how it 

 may affect Illinois farmers. It 

 performs the same service with 

 reference to national and state 

 legislation. 



Mr. Quasey frequently is con- 

 fronted with questions of law 

 involved in transportation claims. 

 These are taken up with tie 

 Legal Department. Matters Of 

 transportation and claims, are 

 vet}- closely related to legal ser*- 

 vice. 



Tax Question 

 The taxation of farm lands 

 lias been a live question in the 

 state "during tlie past few years. 

 The tax work of Mr. Watson 

 brings in numerous questions of 

 legality in certain practices pur- 

 sued in the v.ir'ous counties. 

 When tlie County Clerk of Ma- 

 coupin County, for instance, ex- 

 tended the taxes improperly, an 

 oitinion as to the law was ren- 

 dered by the Legal Department 

 to that County. The matter was 

 fiken to Court and the farmers 

 won l!ie suit. 



Thus it may be seen that each 

 tlepartment, in a sense, has its 

 hegal counlel to consult upon 

 ial matters affecting its work. 

 An organization as large as 

 the I. A. A. dealing, as it does, 

 with many interests and maintain- 

 ing many contacts, has a good 

 ^eal of legal business pertaining 

 to the organization itself. Matters 

 pf this kind are often very close- 

 ly related to questions of busi- 

 hess policy. 



1. A. A. as Whole 

 Any mattfers involving financial 

 responsibility on the part of the 

 Association come in this cate- 

 gory. In this sense, the Legal 

 Department represents the inter- 

 est of the Association against 

 the world. In all legal matters 

 touching upon the business of 

 the Association, the Legal De- 

 partment assists the officers of 

 the Association. 



The County Farm Bureaus 

 niake use, to a considerable ex- 

 tent, of the Association's Legal 

 Department. When Fred J. 

 Blackburn of Marion County, 

 Wants to advise one of hia mem- 

 bers what the law is with refer- 

 ence to division fences, he gets 

 In touch with the Legal Depart- 

 ment. 



County Service 

 A -perplexing school question 

 confronts certain of the farmers 

 in Madison County and Alfred 

 Kant communicates with the 

 Legal Department to determine 

 That right the Superintendent of 



Schools has, with reference to 

 boundaries of the School Districts 



Some of the farmers around 

 Magnolia in Putman County, 

 want to form a co-operative eiie- 

 vator. F. . E. FiiUer, the Farm 

 Adviser, sends for Mr. Jenkins to 

 come down to discuss w^ith them, 

 the forms of organization avd 

 tHe necessary steps to be taken 

 in the formation of- an elevatof 



Mr. M. L. Hunt. Treasurer ci|t 

 the McDonough County iFarnl 

 Bureau, wants to know wh^t the 

 law is as to the liability df his 

 Farm Bureau for the payment of 

 taxes on personal property. \ .\nd' 

 thus it goes. Hundreds of flhese 

 legal inquiries come in froni all 

 over the state and are givenl at- 

 tention by the Association's L^gal 

 Department. 



General Strive 



Certain special matters coine 

 up fj^m time to time, which 

 volve ti^reat deal of attentitn 

 by tlie L^al Department, 

 example of this is the lilinoii- 

 Missouri Milk Association matt 

 at East St. Louis. This Ccyu- 

 pany was thrown into .Jbankrubt- 

 cy last January. Mr.' Kirkpkt- 

 rick has acted as legal adviapr 

 for the reorganization committae. 

 The matter was carried by 4^. 

 Kirkpatrick to the higher couH 



FARM WOMEN TO 

 ENTER FIELD OF 

 'CO-OP'JMRKETING 



Conference Held To Consider 



Egg Merchandising; Pass 



Resolution 



Mt C 



As the result of the national 

 egg marketing conference held 

 in Chicago bj- the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation, farm 

 women of America arc to under- 

 take the organization and con- 

 trol of their first national co- 

 operative marketing association, 

 that of egg marketing. 



Mrs. Wi C. .Martin, ♦Te.xas, chair- 

 man of the Home and Community 

 Department of the American P'arm 

 Bureau Federation, was elected 

 chairman of the meeting, assisted 

 hy Mrs. H. W. Lawrence of Ohio. 



' Aaron Sapiro, co-operative coun- 

 sel of the A. F. B. F.. was the 

 principal speaker at the confer- 

 ence. He recommended that the 

 farm women of the middle west, 

 instead of "trading $2 worth of 

 eggs at the cross-roads grocery for 

 50 cents worth of canned goods'." 

 adopt the co-operative sales plan 

 of the Pacific Coast Egg Produc- 

 ers which has brought them a 

 premium of two to four cents per 

 dozen for their eggs on the New 



and in the meantime the Conimii- York market, 

 tee has worked out a settlement The conference instructed the 

 which has; been accepted by near4L„,,^i,„^„_ ^,^^ jj^^j;^ ^^ ^.^^^j^^ 

 ly all of the creditors. ]\ ^ ^.^„^^^, eommittee to work out 



Another similar matter which! a standard plan for co-operative 

 the Legal Dei.artment has been L^g marketing. This committee 

 working upon tor'a long Period. pwiU select state organization com- 

 is that of rural lisht and nower. 

 Tlie matter first was raised by 

 the members in a groirp of 

 Northern Illinois Counties, whejre 

 rates for electrical energy -htd 

 been boosted by the Illinois 

 Northern Utilities Company. The 

 matter was taken up by the Le- 

 gal Department with the Illi- 

 nois Commerce Commission and 

 the rate boost was cut in half. 



Overhaul Rules 



Following this first complaint, 

 others were made from Bureau 

 County and later from Tazewell 

 and other Counties. It became 

 necessary to overhaul the entire 

 rules in Illinois for electric light 

 and power used on the farm. 

 The old rules were abolished and 

 Frank L. Sniith of Dwlght, Illi- 

 nois, Chairman of the Illinois 

 Commerce Commission, has had 

 a Committee working for several 

 months on the question, with 

 committees representing th,e Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and 



•;iitteofi to iuitiatc lamjiaigns to 

 organize farmers and the families 

 of farmers to merchandise eggs 

 in an intelligent and orderly fash- 

 ion. 



Walton Peteet summarized the 

 conference results by stating that 

 the new committee would prepare 

 definite plans for co-operative 

 marketing of eggs; the egg pro- 

 ducers would organize local as- 

 sociations to assemble and grade 

 their eggs; the locals would fed- 

 erate- into state selling agencies, 

 and' the state associations would 

 b& co-ordinated into a great na- 

 tional egg producers marketing 

 association. 



the Utilities. The case has just 

 recently been closed and the 

 Commerce Commission will short- 

 ly promulgate its General Order. 

 These are some of the things 

 which Iteep the firm of Jenkins 

 & Kirkpatrick busy in behalf of 

 organized agriculture in Illinois. 



Watchful of your interests 

 in freight rates 



Traiuportation Department 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 



*, When fam 



.■- ganize a co-o 



■ with a good 



t from the Daii 



S in the £<ill of 



opened for b 



When stock 



. pany met to c 



. they found tha 



i business durini 



i dend on all pa 



That's parti 



' were satisfied 



pleasing thingi 

 f shown. 



In the orga 



Carroll Co-01 



? shares of stoc 



• per share, the 



; itaiized for $1 



is allowed to ! 



shares. Most 



^ one share as i 



, that there are 



j ers oWning 14 



' "considerable 



sary before esi 



ing 1922, the 1 



equipment. A 



purchased at a 



repairs and ad 



ment during t 



expense of ovi 



Pla 



i ' During the I 

 A the plant was 

 ', delivered crea 

 ,. gradually incr 

 / as 21D produc 

 . the co-operati 

 . eht flush seaso 

 1 A total of II 

 'i ter v.-as made 

 -" ter-niaker G. ' 

 ^y as.^lstanf Joe 

 .' the largest pa 



in prints to 



, larger Illinois 



i shipped to loi 



shipped went 



sion houses. 



Preinin 



It is interest 

 high quality ol 

 it to command 

 market. Print 

 cent over 92 s 

 market, while 

 one cent undei 

 ter on the Chi 



A short sun 

 1 ery receipts fo 

 various sourct 

 lows : 



CommissHJtelHc 

 Retail .Me>Wian 

 Patrons ....... 



Buttermilk . . . 

 Sundry Items 

 Butter Inventoi 



Total 



Disbursemei 

 From the pn 

 aside for stoc 

 the purchase 1 

 leaving a ba 

 J997.63. 



Poultry 



Besides its 1 

 op" handled i 

 its patrons o 

 margin of one 

 eggs and one 

 ppultry. This 

 usual margin 



Only the sm 

 was shown tc 

 the poultry pr 

 of course, to t 

 which they w 

 ceipts for egi 

 totalled $10,3( 

 were sold to tl 



The Mt. Car 

 that handling : 

 patrons workei 

 with its dairy 



